Lets be politically and intellectually honest. At the scheduled meeting today between Donald Trump and Paul Ryan, Speaker Ryan needs Trump more than Nominee Trump needs Ryan.
A strong argument can be made Ryan set up last weeks media construct, including the call to Jake Tapper requesting a CNN interview, to retain his own relevance.

Against a growing electoral insurgency openly dismissing the Omnibus version of conservatism represented by Ryans’ inept and ineffective and self-centered leadership, Lyin’ Ryan could soon to be seated at the pouty table if he doesn’t seem important.
The pouty table is currently occupied by the dispatched professionally irrelevant members of congress (identified by their hashtag profiles).  Hashtag Gnats sitting together with most current radio talk show hosts, and almost all of the beltway punditry and opinion writers.  However, there’s still plenty of room for more. (more…)

Great interview with Paul Manafort.  [Chris Matthews is an insufferable dolt 99% of the time.  Then there’s the 1% of the time when he’s an ordinary dolt.]

Chris Matthews responses to Manafort in this interview made me remember a rather large forum speech Matthews gave about Trump in the fall of 2015.
It is really well worth watching. In the video below Chris Matthews is speaking to an exclusive DC based audience of limo-liberals.
The Aspen Institute Washington Forum has an average audience member income $850k /yr.  That’s about $15,000 per week.  (These are the beltway people paying $5k to have their Christmas Trees decorated professionally each year).
We’ve previously mentioned how disconnected the DC, MD and VA beltway communities are. In this video the elites are trying to understand what’s going on in flyover country amid the rubes. Matthews is explaining to them who those torch carrying vulgarians are.
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Sometimes you might find yourself having an imaginary conversation with the insufferable moonbat pundits on TV:

• Pundit: Candidate Donald Trump has a woman problem…
SD: But he’s winning large majorities of women voters in the primary and polling.
• Pundit: That’s only Republican women…
SD: Well, actually Republican and Independent women, but that’s women.
• Pundit: But he needs to win women in the General Election…
SD: He’s winning women so far.
• Pundit: But that’s only republican women.
SD: Republican and Independent women are general election voters...
• Pundit: But that’s only republican and independent women.
SD: So, you’re saying he needs to win non-Republican women, Democrat women?
• Pundit: Yes, exactly.
SD: Are you saying Democrat women are going to vote for a Republican?
• Pundit: No, heavens no. Of course they’re not.
SD: So why should he change message to appeal to a constituency with no intention of voting for him?
• Pundit: Well, um… because.
SD: Thanks. Carry on.

One of the best Trump attributes in the current political season is his ability to campaign on common sense. Unfortunately for the media enterprise, this makes much of their influential punditry seem silly. It’s not a matter of Donald Trump defying the intellectual logic of the professional political class; it’s more a matter of just plain common sense.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan answered a few questions from reporters today about the upcoming meeting with republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.  One of the continuing phrases Ryan repeats is his belief that he and Trump come from two different wings of the party:

Speaker Ryan’s response highlights the 2016 electoral shift.  A ‘common sense’ conservative movement (wing) is focused on fiscal responsibility and solutions. While the preferred Ryan (big government wing of progressive UniParty) constructs focus on Wall Street’s legislative agenda. (more…)

9:45pm A Live Stream also below – We anticipate the need for more than one thread with results tonight, hence the numbering as above. Tonight – West Virginia and Nebraska vote.

♦ West Virginia – Trump Wins w/ 75%+

♦ Nebraska – Trump Wins w/ 60%+

Polls close in West Virginia at 7:30pm EDT. Polls close in Nebraska at 8:00pm local (2 time zones) 9:00pm EDT / 10pm EDT

Prior to tonight Donald Trump retains the strongest delegate position with 1,080 delegates won. (Ted Cruz 564 delegates, Marco Rubio 167, John Kasich 155)

Tonight there are 70 delegates available:

♦ West Virginia – 34 Delegates available (directly voted): 9 district delegates are directly elected on the primary ballot (3 delegates are elected in each of the state’s 3 Congressional Districts). 22 at-large delegates (10 at-large plus 12 bonus) are directly elected statewide. 3 party delegates.
♦ Nebraska – 36 Delegates available (winner take all): All 36 of Nebraska’s delegates to the Republican National Convention are pledged to in today’s Nebraska winner.
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8:14pm Live Stream Added Below Fold – We anticipate the need for more than one thread with results tonight, hence the numbering as above. Tonight – West Virginia and Nebraska vote.

♦ West Virginia ♦ Nebraska

Polls close in West Virginia at 7:30pm EDT. Polls close in Nebraska at 8:00pm local (2 time zones) 9:00pm EDT / 10pm EDT

Prior to tonight Donald Trump retains the strongest delegate position with 1,080 delegates won.   (Ted Cruz 564 delegates, Marco Rubio 167, John Kasich 155)

Tonight there are 70 delegates available:

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West Virginia and Nebraska Vote Today

Ignore Exit Polls !

West Virginia voting locations are open until 7:30pm EDT.  Ignore Media reports of exit polls and GO VOTE.   Every Vote Matters.
Nebraska has two time zones and voting locations are open until 8:00pm local time.  Central Time zone voting ends at 9:00pm EDT, and Mountain Time zone voting ends at 10:00pm EDT.  Ignore media reports of exit polls and GO VOTE. Every Vote Matters.

You can find resource and reference material for both state primary elections including voting times, voting locations and phone numbers for assistance at the following sources:

♦ Nebraska Voting Information Available HERE

♦ West-Virginia Voting Information Available HERE

If you are in one of these primary states feel free to share your ground reports from your neighborhood, polling location, municipality or district.  Use the comment section to update on what’s going on in/around your area with voter turnout.
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West Virginia and Nebraska Vote Today

You can find resource and reference material for both state primary elections including voting times, voting locations and phone numbers for assistance at the following sources:
♦ Nebraska Voting Information Available HERE
♦ West-Virginia Voting Information Available HERE
If you are voting today in one of these primary states perhaps you could share your own ground report from your neighborhood, polling location, municipality or district.  Use the comment section to update on what’s going on in/around your area with voter turnout.

What’s going on out there today?

 

A brand new series of Quinnipiac Swing State Polls (full pdf below) shows Donald Trump beating Hillary Clinton in Ohio (43-39), and a virtual tie in Florida and Pennsylvania with Hillary Clinton attaining a one point lead in each (43-42).

(Via Quinnipiac University) Clinton and Trump both have negative favorability ratings among voters in each state, compared to Sanders’ split score, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University Poll finds. The Swing State Poll focuses on Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania because since 1960 no candidate has won the presidential race without taking at least two of these three states.
The presidential matchups show: (more…)

Considering the long history of legislative abuse carried out by the insufferable GOPe, and knowing the only way to rid the apparatus of the corrupting infection is to cut out clear margins, Donald Trump would be well advised to take Paul Ryan up on his offer to resign his chairmanship at the national convention.

In addition, and considering the patriotic bench available for immediate dispatch, Donald Trump could request Reince Preibus resign from his post as RNC head and immediately replace him with a more favorable and competent executive.
We’re completely serious about this proposition.  Presumptive nominee Donald Trump is holding all the leverage he needs, the leverage of ‘We The People’ – and none of the customary party insiders should be trusted with any of the national campaign constructs, especially the financial matters. (more…)